With this post you see a picture of the voting card they handed us. Nicely done and union printed.

I am a DSA member.

DSA meetings in Houston get crowds of 50 to 80 folks from what I've seen so far. Pretty good.

A topic at last night's meeting was endorsing candidates here in Houston and Harris County. DSA supported candidates are not on a separate ballot line. They are Democrats who have sought out the endorsement.

I keep seeing this narrative that the main reason Trump won in 2016 was Sanders voters who did not support Clinton.

There are some who push this account at the expense of all the other 100 reasons an election turns out one way rather than another.

And I continue to hear over and over the absolutely toxic viewpoint that Sanders is not a Democrat.

Everybody knows Sanders is not a Democrat. The issue is do you want Sanders voters in the Democratic Party?

On one hand Sanders voters are told they failed to vote for Democrats. On the other hand they are told they are not in fact Democrats? Which is it?

I voted for Sanders and sent him $100. My mom in Ohio voted for Sanders as well.

After Clinton was nominated, I consistently made phone calls for the Harris County Democratic Party ticket for the November 2016 ballot , I volunteered roughly 50 hours for a Democratic Houston School Board candidate who won by 37 votes, I paid $120 to become a sustaining member of the Harris County Democratic Party & I've regularly participated in a weekly Thursday phone bank at Harris County Democratic HQ to help defeat very bad Congressman John Culberson.

Beyond that, I've taken part in numerous events led by grass roots groups where there in fact should often have been a presence by local elected Democrats. ( Is there any Houston City Council Democrat you look to for leadership and real energy in building the Democratic Party and fighting for progressive causes?)

It is up to Sanders supporters among themselves to discuss how to proceed from this point.

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Does the establishment Democratic Party value of the votes of Bernie Sanders' partisans? Do they care more about maintaining the stagnant status quo in local Democratic Party organizations across the nation or do they really want to beat Donald Trump and win down ballot elections with new voters and new ideas?

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